The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe
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The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe

Reanimating Art

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe

Reanimating Art

About this book

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers' home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

This book investigates how a group of struggling young artists attempted to reinvent the international avant-garde after the devastation of the Second World War, to create artistic experiments capable of facing the challenges of postwar society. It explores how Cobra's experimental, often collective art works and publications relate to broader debates in Europe about the use of images to commemorate violent events, the possibility of free expression in an art world constrained by Cold War politics, the breakdown of primitivism in an era of colonial independence movements, and the importance of spontaneity in a society increasingly dominated by the mass media.

This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, 20th-century modern art, avant-garde arts, and European history.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781351034487
Edition
1
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Arte general

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of plates
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Reanimating Art
  12. 1 Human Animals
  13. 2 Surrealism into Cobra
  14. 3 War, Memory, and Renewal
  15. 4 Expression for All
  16. 5 Coda: New Networks
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index